the saliva‚ seminal fluid or the blood. Prevention methods including hand washing‚ the social care worker’s and others’ personal hygiene. The preventions methods of infection control are: * Hand hygiene is decontamination of the hands by either washing or the application of alcohol hand rub products. The importance of hand hygiene in the prevention of cross infection particularly in healthcare settings. The way you should wash your hands are: * Wet hands under continuous running water
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What is dementia? If you‚ or a friend or relative‚ have been diagnosed with dementia‚ you may be feeling anxious or confused. You may not know what dementia is. This factsheet should help answer some of your questions. The term ’dementia’ is used to describe the symptoms that occur when the brain is affected by specific diseases and conditions. These include Alzheimer’s disease and sometimes as a result of a stroke. Dementia is progressive‚ which means the symptoms will gradually get worse. How
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HNC Social Care Booklet of Assessments This document contains all the assessment information you will need for the HNC Social Care. They are collated in chronological order with the lecturer responsible (where this is known) identified on the assessment. It is up to the learner to ensure that the assessment is handed in by the deadline. The assessment schedule will be posted on the moodle site. All work should be word processed and include appropriate references both in main
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Work Placement Portfolio On Health And Safety. This is a summary of how my placement at field house‚ meets health and safety to make sure that the working environment if safe for staff and residents also visitors. Food Safety Act‚ This act ensures that nothing extra is included in food‚ or remove anything from food or treat food in any way this could damaged to the health of people eating. It should be served to the quality which consumers would expect their food to be‚ that all food is labelled
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Answers to questions in S/NVQ Level 2 Health & Social Care Easy Steps Unit 21 Communicate with and complete records for individuals In the workplace: Jake likes to joke (page 7) 1 2 3 No‚ there will be many occasions when an individual does not want to laugh and joke‚ especially if they feel sad or angry. Jake should respond in a way that recognises the way they are feeling at that time. Jake might have to be more serious in formal meetings or when talking to individuals about
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Written Question: ‘Explain employees’ roles and responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control of infection’: ‘It is our responsibility as employees to take precautionary measures to prevent and control the spread of infection in the workplace; this involves working safely to protect myself‚ other staff‚ visitors and individuals from infections. As employees we must ensure we attend all necessary trainings that our employers provide regarding infection control and prevention
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SHC 31: Promote communication in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings 1.1) Identify the different reasons people communicate. People communicate for a wide variety of reasons with others on a daily basis. Some of the main reasons we communicate are to share information‚ ideas‚ our feelings‚ our thoughts‚ our needs‚ as well as to be social with other people. Another reason is so we can offer support and promote relationships with families‚ young people‚ members of the
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546 the role of the health and social care worker 1. Understand working relationship in health and social care. 1.1 Explain how a working relationship is different from a personal relationship’ The difference between a working relationship and personal relationship is that a working relationship is where you are placed with other people and work as part of team where each individual is working following professional codes of conduct‚ towards the achievement of shared aims and objectives
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BTEC NATIONAL Subsidiary Diploma Level 3 in Health and Social care UNIT 48 Exploring Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care. Teacher Name: Ms C Jumpp-Graham Guided Learning Hours: 60 hours Assessment Type: Internal 2012-2013 UNIT 48 ASSIGNMENT – Exploring Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care. IntroductionThis assignment is made up of a number of tasks which‚ when successfully completed‚ are designed to give you sufficient
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how to handle information in social care settings Outcome 1 Understand requirements for handling information in social care settings Outcome 1.1 identify legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling of information in social care settings; Keeping information safe and only passing it on where there is a clear right to it and a clear need to do so‚ is an important right for all service users because: 1. Service users may not trust a care worker who does not keep information
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